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Burkett, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Janesville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66853. The Survey maps it on the Thrall quadrangle.

Burkett within Greenwood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Burkett between 2015 and 2020, burning about 5,830 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5,500 acresGreenwood CountyHAMLITON
30 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresKansas Forest Service70
23 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service55
26 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service29

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Thrall3.7 miles16
Hamilton6.9 miles14
Kenbro7.2 miles16
Lapland7.8 miles14
Teterville8.2 miles16
Bisbee8.5 miles16
Madison9.4 miles16
Utopia10.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484838. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.